Top EPA Official Steps Down in Wake of "Crucify" Comment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) administrator in the South and Southwest region (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas), Al Armendariz, has resigned after Republicans took aim at comments he made two years ago regarding how the EPA would "crucify" corporations that broke environmental laws.
An environmental engineer by training, Armendariz, often found himself at odds with the oil and gas industry. The final straw came last week, after Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), one of the most staunch opponents of climate change in government, cited a passage from a speech Armendariz gave in Dish, Texas, where residents' concerns about the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing have been an issue for years.
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"Obama's Waterloo" wanting Obama to fail and be a one term president is ok? But making big oil pay for their mess is a no no. They try and convince us that the Gulf is safe all the while all kinds of deformed creatures and dead baby dolphins show up. I think BP should lose their company over their gusher. And now they are trying to make fracking friendly. Who needs to drink water anyways, it's over rated. 
> Al Armendariz, has resigned after Republicans took aim at comments
> he made two years ago regarding how the EPA would "crucify" corporations
> that broke environmental laws.
Why resign? Just why?
It's not as if there have been major punitive actions against ANY corporations
that are busy breaking environmental laws in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Louisiana or Arkansas. Hell, I'd be mildly surprised to find that there were
ANY corporations even being slapped on the wrist by the EPA so the idea
that they'd be in any way "crucified" is totally unbelievable.
And yet he's resigned.
Score another one for the anti-environmental Republicans and their supporters.
